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The fruits of his eight years of Indian life are even more 

 scanty. During his lifetime he published the essay on the 

 Indo-Chinese languages already mentioned, which appeared 

 in the tenth volume of the Asiatic Researches. He also, 

 whilst sub-secretary to the Asiatic Society, contributed another 

 paper on the Roshaniah, a sect of heretical Aifghans, which 

 appeared in the eleventh volume of their researches. 



To the Bible society he supplied translations of the follow- 

 ing portions of the New Testament : — 



The gospels of Matthew and Mark in Pushtu. 

 The four gospels in Maldivian. 

 The gospel of Mark in Beluchi. 

 Do. in Macassar. 



Do. in Bugi. 



He also submitted proposals to the translation committee of 

 the same society for rendering the gospels into Saimese, 

 Rakheng, and Jagatai. It is not easy to ascertain what pro- 

 gress he had made in the other oriental tongues, but he 

 appears to have been more or less conversant with the follow- 

 ing:— 



Aryan. Polysyllabic Indo-Chinese. 



Sanscrit. Malay. 



Pdli. Bugi. 



Bengali. Macassar. 



Mahratta. Jawa. 



Hindustani. Bima. 



Dravidian. Batta. 



Tamil. Tagala. 



Telugu. Maldivian. 



Canarese. Monosyllabic Indo-Chinese. 



Malayalim. Rhakheng. 



Turanian. Mon. 



Pushtu. Barma. 



Beluchi. Thay. 



Turki. Khomen. 



Jagatai. Lau. 



Anam. 

 In addition to which must be added those previously men- 

 tioned — Arabic, Persian, Hebrew, from which he had pub- 

 lished translations, Syriac, and Armenian. 



In many of those he left work in various stages ot progress, 

 but scarcely anything sufficiently matured for publication. 

 What he contemplated was a systematic comparative arrange- 

 ment of languages, the germ of which may be observed in 



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